While not strictly about an actual explosion, in Douglas Adams' The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy a [censored] whale materializes in thin air above a distant planet, only to fall several miles to the ground, creating "a crater about a hundred and fifty yards wide" containing "the exploded carcass of a lonely [censored] whale". The whale started life as an explosive: a nuclear missile, changed into a whale by the Infinite Improbability Drive. There is also a backreference to this literary incident in Fallout 2, a PC role-playing game popular in the late 1990s. In one of the random encounters of the game, the player faces a huge exploded corpse of a [censored] whale in the middle of the desert.